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alders, thorns, and the like. Woods of warrant are oak, ash, 
holling, crabtree, and, in some places, birch and white thorn, and 
they are so called, because, albeit those woods grow upon the 
tenants’ ground, and they (the tenants) commonly took thereof 
necessary house bote, hedge bote, plow bote, and cart bote, yet at 
one time they could not even do this without warrant or license 
from the lord, or delivery of the lord’s bailiff, servant, or other 
officer. They, in fact, had no interest or property in any woods 
whatsoever, but only under a certain duty or acknowledgement, 
which is called greenhue rent. This greenhue rent is payable in 
all the manors which are the subject of this paper, and is generally 
about 1d. or 2d.a tenement. By the payment of this rent the 
tenants are entitled to cut such underwoods as grow within their 
own tenements, and also to lop woods of warrant. But if the 
tenant lopped such woods unreasonably, he was a trespasser to 
the lord, and liable to be fined at the lord’s court. Unreasonable 
lopping was, either when the branches were cut off too near the 
bole, or when the master branch or top of the tree was cut off, and 
so made the tree liable to decay. It was also considered 
unreasonable lopping if such lopping was done either when the 
sap was ascending or descending, because, in either case, it was 
likely to cause decay. It was the custom to administer the 
following oath to the tenants at each Court Baron :—“ You shall 
swear that neither you, nor any of you, nor any to your use or 
knowledge, hath grubbed, felled, or cut down any wood of 
warrant, as oak, ash, holly, or crabtree, within this lordship with- 
out license of the lord or delivery of his officer.” What one of the 
old bailiffs (could he appear in the flesh again) would think of our 
plantations now-a-days, with their ever increasing variety of firs, 
pines, &c., I cannot tell, but I imagine he would be pretty con- 
siderably non-plussed, especially if he happened to come across an 
Araucaria imbricata, or “monkey puzzle.” 
Then, as regards houses, the lord was not bound to find his 
tenant all kinds of wood for building, nor yet for all sorts of 
buildings, but only for a “convenient” dwelling-house, barn, byre 
or cowhouse, and principally for the ease or rigging tree, spars, 
